XXXCITER  Is this application dead? I haven't used it in a while...but, 5 of the 6 networks were down -- nothing came up from the search & its been a while since there has been any update/news on the developer site!!!  
(Version 0.5191)

TASKMAN  It looks like the development has been resumed on this excellent software! Granted, there is still some work to do, but in the mean time you can download files from four different network from a single well-designed application.  
(Version 0.5191)

NEONBLUE2  YES! Finally there is a Universal binary version! But beware, it is not official and isn't part of the main Poisoned timeline.

http://files.filefront.com/Poisonedzip/;6464833;;/fileinfo.html  
(Version 0.5191)

NEONBLUE2  (On a MacBook Pro) Poisoned is a beautiful application but only on PPC Macs. I can't find anything now I'm on Intel partly due to it being PPC only so I'm stuck with FrostWire for now.

For everyone still on PPC that's having problems with connections try PoisonedAlt.

http://www.hurrikenux.com/release/Poisoned0.5.19Alt.zip  
(Version 0.5191)

NED ANDERSON  Poisoned my old buddy. Where've you been/  
(Version 0.5191)

ZWS  Stop the presses!  
(Version 0.5191)

DEREK VIRTA  i was loving Poisoned for a couple of days until i started having problems saving my ProTools recordings onto my Lacie Disk (i couldn't!). i had to erase my entire brand new mini mac and reinstall everything. now my computer works great, but i'm staying away from Poisened.  
(Version 0.519)

DAN  Even since I got my hey hard drive and had to re-download Poisoned Gnutella and Ares wont load, anyone know what I can do?  
(Version 0.519)

JONATHAN HELL  Poisond used to run seemlessly with my Router (Link Sys 54mbps wireless w/four port ethernet hub) and while also running limewire. now, running either causes the other's port forwarding to mess up and as a result i have to reset the router for the applications to recognize the forwarding. also, i have to restart for uploads to work on either.

before the last update i got, i could download within limewire and it would be doing the same in poisoned automatically and yet there would be only one import to itunes since the two applications somehow spoke to one another. i like to use poisoned as a fast track interface and limewire for gnutella.

also, poisoned no longer recognizes shared files that are within music folders for the artists. thus, i can only share 6GB instead of the 60GB i actually have. please email jhaack1@hotmail.com for more info.

thanks,

and keep up the good work.

posioned is the only serious file sharing program for mac besides lime (which is gnutella only) - thus, i really want to see an official 1.0 release with some serious statistics and advanced preferences. also, if you can fix all these problems and the glitches that others recommend, then you can probably switch people from limewire as well . . .

Jonathan

Haack's Networking  
(Version 0.519)

ANONYMOUS  Works like a charm but Ares downloads never ends up.

Hope they gonna fix this in an upcoming release.

Keep up the good work!  
(Version 0.519)

VONBRIAN  Have used Poisoned for a long time and it has been mostly trouble free. Recently however, I have noticed that if it is running and my Mac goes to sleep, any CDs I may have mounted will be dismounted when I wake the computer and become unejectable and un-remountable until I do a hard reset (shutdown and restart don't work as the OS thinks it is still there). I have a feeling that they way Poisoned scans and shares volumes has something to do with it.  
(Version 0.519)

ANONYMOUS  I have used Poisoned for a good time now. It has always worked great for me.

Recently though, I can't connect at all. Ever.

What is going on?  
(Version 0.519)

ANONYMOUS  Drawer has a mind of its own - detaches from main window and screws up at random! Otherwise A OK.  
(Version 0.519)

ANONYMOUS  Really enjoy Poisoned, but I am noticing some wierd search results coming back - things like the name I search for with a .jpg and again with a .wmv extension, and 30-50 users for each. Looks like some are working to mess with us.  
(Version 0.519)

PILS  Just updated from .517, and I'm starting to think Poisoned is losing its place on my list of top p2p apps. The GUI keeps screwing up, with the drawer not being able to position itself on my screen (I can only see half of it, although sometimes it seems to redraw itself into position after awhile... and then it screws up again).

I'm still getting tons more search results from xfactor. Xfactor uses basically the same networks -- although I am impressed to see the addition of the ares network to Poisoned, currently reporting 1.8 million users from ares.

So it is back to XFactor, and Azureus (for bittorrent) is still my top pick for filesharing overall.  
(Version 0.519)

ANONYMOUS  quiero me ayuden a bajar el ejecutable de Poisoned 0519 o 0518 o 0517. Con tal de que me vuelva a servir tan fabuloso programa para compartir archivos.

Gracias

carlos felipe salcedo

agradezco si me contestan en español a mi mail carlosfelipe35@telesat.com.co  
(Version 0.519)

ANONYMOUS  NO NEED for an alternative!

Forget Acqlite.org!  
(Version 0.519)

ANONYMOUS  For an alternative see www.acqlite.org.  
(Version 0.519)

ANONYMOUS  For an alternative see www.acqlite.org.  
(Version 0.519)

ANONYMOUS  What does this mean and why am I getting this error message?

You seem to have a problem with the gIFT daemon crashing. Would you like to reset Poisoned in an attempt to correct this?

Poisoned was not able to reset from previous versions due to an error in permissions. [???] can not move incoming folder to trash. Please do that manually.

Thanks

Newbie  
(Version 0.518)

MACUSER24  Finally an update to Poisoned! I think I can speak for many when I say, about time! (lol) I still enjoy working with and downloading from Poisoned. Its ease of use and for me personally, its reliability it why I still keep Poisoned nested in Dock.

For those who had trouble with Gnutella plug in, a must update! Things are woking fine.  
(Version 0.518)

GRAF  I used to be a big fan and advocate for Poisoned because it worked a thousand times better than any other Mac P2P apps. But then Poisoned began to work less and less with each new release, until now it basically takes up hard drive space without contributing any files to it. I've switched to Cabos, which works great---better even than Poisoned back when it was good.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16330  
(Version 0.518)

ANONYMOUS  Yes we have a minor problem, please visit the forum for uptodate info

http://www.gottsilla.net/forums/

Hawkeye - poisoned administrator/moderator  
(Version 0.517)

HAWKEYE  Yes the gnutella giFT is broken see my post for a temp fix

http://www.gottsilla.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2089

Hawkeye - poisoned administrator/moderator  
(Version 0.517)

JSAMIN  Old versions worked great. This version doesn't want to work with OS10.2.7. Juggling with the preferences and buttons works, but that's a pain. Will have to be fixed before I use it regularly.  
(Version 0.517)

YNOT  poisoned works pretty good ,but i'd like to no how i can get faster downloads cause i'm downloading between 2 and 5 kB/s. can anyone help   
(Version 0.517)

SKIP   I figured it out when it ask to reset choose no and then fast like go to preference plugin and uncheck

Gnutella and then it should work.  
(Version 0.517)

SEAN  Gnutella is still not working !!! Quite disconcerting I would have to say as this was a great network...

I have tried updating the nodes and all sorts of reinstall etc. However the moment i turn gnutella back on through the .conf file, its not working. started after xmas.. and the log indicated that the gnutella client was out of date (1 + yrs old )... HEYLP  
(Version 0.517)

ANONYMOUS  yes it works if i don't use gnutella. thanks  
(Version 0.517)

JORDAN LANGILLE  TonyC: You saved me from a whole lot of frustration.

Thanks so much!  
(Version 0.517)

BRADLEY FOX  I'm having issues from the moment I open poisoned.

It won't connect, and when I stop it, it tells me that there is no giFT Daemon running.

When I try to reset poisoned, I get this message:

Poisoned was not able to reset from previous versions due to an error in permissions.

can not move incoming folder to trash. Please do that manually.

Then it crashes and I start again.

It worked fine when I first downlaoded it.......  
(Version 0.517)

TONYC  There is a problem with Gnutella (12/30/04). It is causing Poisoned to crash.The workaround: Disable the Gnutella plugin and then do an update of gift. You will have to struggle to open preferences and get to "plugins" while constantly clicking "no" on the update dialog box that will keep appearing. (Quick mousing will be needed but you have unlimited tries). Once you have the Gnutella plugin unchecked, turn off Gift at the top right hand corner of search page, then from the "Poisoned" menu do an update of gift.  
(Version 0.517)

BERTO  It worked,.... then it didn't.   
(Version 0.517)

ANONYMOUS  worked fine for two months, then went bad and couldn't connect to gift.  
(Version 0.517)

ANONYMOUS  Some news from the front, xFactor is soon going have support for the ARES network, which has a little under 2 million users at this time, and almost no RIAA presence. Goodbye dear poisoned.  
(Version 0.517)

BRILDENLANCH  D.E.A.D

Get xFactor

www.xfactor.cc  
(Version 0.517)

ANONYMOUS  Waiting

Waiting

Waiting

Waiting

Waiting

Waiting

Waiting  
(Version 0.517)

JAZZ  I tried for many years to find a decent p2p program for the Mac. I tried LimeWire, Aquisition, Neo, and others, and noticed one thing about them all: even in the two or three times they returned any results from my searches at all, the files they came up with were totally undownloadable. Not one single file came through any of those programs. In near-desperation I decided to give p2p one last chance and I downloaded Poisoned, and found it a godsend. Everything works. Finally!

The only negative things I can say about it is this: I would really like to be able to sort the downloads list by the columns (by name, size, completeness, time to complete, etc.) I've missed that for a while now. Also, it is still rather unstable and buggy. However, it's still in development, so that's to be expected. At least it actually works, which is more than can be said for LimeWire, Aquisition, or Neo.

Thanks Poisoned!  
(Version 0.517)

ROBIN   Great stuff! Just what I was looking for.   
(Version 0.517)

ANDREW HAAS  I have used both xFactor and Poisoned extensively, and both have yielded the same results-neither of them offer great downloads (they both use the same networks, so it figures). xFactor started out well (meaning, i got decent download speeds for pretty much anything I searched for) but soon fell into what Poisoned fell into-big queues, 0 users, protocol errors, etc. And xFactor uses about 40% or more CPU pretty much all the time. poisoned uses between 10-20% about half the time, and less than that the remainder of the time. Poisoned still offers downloads, so I don't know how people can say xFactor is better.  
(Version 0.517)

PIRE2PIRE  Works great and very stable.

One of the best p2p app out there.

One thing, giftd gnutella plugin doesn't works pretty well :-/

For those that get problems, check your connection settings, obviously, you're having a problem!  
(Version 0.517)

THESHAMANBEAR  wait up here, those that can't connect, did you check your system, do you run X maintenance routines, whats your internet connection like... etc etc. coz i have no problem with this excellent app  
(Version 0.517)

BRILDENLANCH  Works sporadically and hardly ever downloads.  
(Version 0.517)

ANONYMOUS  Anyone have a feeling that an XFactor dev is spamming this board with ads for XFactor? I'd never download an app as sleazy and untrustworthy as XFactor.  
(Version 0.517)

BRILDENLANCH  Yep, Xfactor is the way to go.

Down with Poisoned!  
(Version 0.517)

XACHARY POWERS  A potentially good app flawed but it's complete inability to connect to the Gnutella network much to the bafflement of both the users and the developers.

Feeble useless info on their site to troubleshoot this problem just simply does not work and the devs simply do not care and/or understand how to get it working.  
(Version 0.517)

JONATHAN WHITE  Am I the only one who finds two writers of a P2P product having a spat about intellectual property just a tad ironic?  
(Version 0.517)

ANONYMOUS  Actually that's incorrect... Hellimod accused Ashton of having Poisoned Code in Xfactor? How could he possibly have Poisoned Code in Xfactor? Xfactor doesn't crash!  
(Version 0.517)

ANSWEROR  the dev of XFactor (Jolix) who is an earlier dev of Poisoned released a version which he named Poisoned. He stole Poisoned's code which is OK, but he released it as a Poisoned update which really wasn't OK. The dev of Poisoned and the admin of MacUpdate agreed to ban XFactor from MU's lists; and that's OK. Those who mean it's not OK, doesn't know the story behind. you have to know the story behind to get why it's OK.   
(Version 0.517)

BRILDENLANCH  I recently switched to xfactor. Much better app and seems to still be in heavy development, unlike poisoned.  
(Version 0.517)

ANONYMOUS  It's so sad what has happened to this program. It was just WONDERFUL a long time ago, and now it's gone downhill..

R.I.P. Poisoned..  
(Version 0.517)

ANONYMOUS  This isn't a discussion board but for some reason MacUpdate banned XFactor, you should email them with your question. If you do a Google search on XFactor you'll find it.

I switch to XFactor also, I get really good results and good downloads at a good speed.

Whatever program you choose, you must forward your ports on your routers if you are behind a Firewall so that we all get what we are requesting.  
(Version 0.517)

ANONYMOUS  still good. but the devs has to do more for Poisoned (i.e. updating the app more frequent...!!!)  
(Version 0.517)

ANONYMOUS  i used poisoned for ages thinking it was the best out there. when i saw the comment for Xfactor, i thought why not, and has it paid off! poisoned is good, but Xfactor is great! it has many results and they all download at reasonable speeds, 2 factors poisoned rarely has except for mainstream files.

http://www.xfactor.cc   
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  Poisoned .516 has been working great for me - much better than Acquisition, in fact. Powerful and fast, I would recommend no other.  
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  Workable interface, lots of results in searches - hardly ever successful in downloading anything - even files that will download fine using "other" competing products.

I realize it's free - but come on, what causes the lack of successful downloading?  
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  nice looking, fast.

nothing to download.  
(Version 0.516)

LO  been using Poisoned since a long time when it was still a buggy pace of software, then when time passed it got better and better, now however when time pases, it gets worse and worse, what is going on!?

i advise everyone to use XFactor

http://www.xfactor.cc/

it's just sooo much better!  
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  XFactor is not on MU because the poisoned developer (if you want to call him that anymore) and Joel decided to blacklist it even tho they have no proof to back there claims, and will not listen to reason.  
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  not a review, just a question: why does this page come up when I'm trying to find XFactor?  
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  At one point poisoned was the best out there, but between all of the developer fights and whatever else goes on they lost focus somewhere. It's just not up to the standard that XFactor sets now, which just gets better and better. Use that one. www.xfactor.cc  
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  xfactor .23 out, updated often works much better then poisoned, www.xfactor.cc   
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  This is the worst version of poisoned that I have ever used. Where is the Gnutella Network? Why are 75% of the files that I can miraculously download corrupted? Why will Poisoned show me a file downloading at 54kb/sec and then I go to play it and *fwip* NOTHING! I think all of these issued need to be addressed before any "fun" new features are added to future versions.  
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  gift  
(Version 0.516)

DOGGER BLUE  A great filesharing app, with the built-in advantage that it avoids Java implementations and relies on the giFT project.

It does require a bit more babysitting than LimeWire, mostly due to the unavailability of an ever-find-new-sources mode, which is apparently due to limitations inherent in the giFT daemon (i.e. not solvable directly by Poisoned devs). Thinking outside the box a bit, however, the same problem could be addressed by implementing an auto-re-search function to keep the list of available sources fresh. With this feature added, you could basically run the app hands-off.

As it is, you really need to wander by and refresh all your searches to keep your sources from getting stale. This is not strictly required in LimeWire, but practically speaking, you are way better off if you do it, anyway. So I don't find any big difference from using LimeWire (or any others) ... I end up babysitting occasionally in any case.

Poisoned is much faster than LimeWire as an app (not talking about download speed which is totally independent of app though many imagine otherwise). It also is much simpler to install than most other P2P apps. The menu option 'Reset Poisoned' is enough to take care of your installation getting into an odd condition (something all giFT implementations are vulnerable to).

It's my current P2P app of choice.  
(Version 0.516)

STELLA  Still the best filesharing app. (I think) for OSX!!!!

I takes a while figuring out how it works best: al lot a lot clicking and trying stuff out but once you get used to how it all works, it works brilliantly....If you have problems then just start up again or download the thing again! That will usually solve the problem, otherwise there is an excellent forum that will answer your questions!

It is a simple light program that usually gets my what I want! I love it!  
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  I wish I could use Poisoned, since everyone seems to think it's so good. But v0.516 uses every scrap of the CPU time on my iBook G3 900, and renders it useless. iSwipe may have a terrible interface, and behave strangely at times, but at least it can keep its CPU usage under control.  
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  This app really is quite frustrating, i'm not to sure if anyone else has this problem but it happens to me every poisoned i ever used. The downloads actually disappear before they've finished, i was downloading a 650mb file and quite poisoned to resume the next day. I had completed 500mb of the file but now poisoned won't read it anymore. It does it all the time... ugly farken app  
(Version 0.516)

RAYLENE  The continuing drama of this app's icon is pretty humorous. After a series of really junky ones, the last (.515) one looked very smooth and professional, but now it's already gone and the new one is a globe wearing a green diaper. Wonder what we'll see with .517. . . .

With the iTunes store on a mission to host "all the music there is" (see numerous news items from May), it's getting easier all the time to just pluck down a dollar and grab a tune in the easiest, most reliable way possible: Legally.   
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  I'm not sure what has happened, but downloading .mp3's no longer go to the iTunes Poisoned playlist. When a file shows completed, it then turns to waiting, and there is nothing in the downloads folder. Not a good update for me.  
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  Not sure but poison seems to screw with osx mail or at least connecting to my mail servers. I can't bee 100% sure because I have no idea how to verify something like that, but my email does have troubles everytime i use it.  
(Version 0.516)

GARY BRYAN  This used to be better, but nowadays it NEVER connects to the Gnutella network, and rarely OpenFT, only to the crappy FastTrack network. It always used to be the other way round.  
(Version 0.516)

ADRIAN  I used to love this program but what happened. all i get is waiting on pretty much every bloody download that i try. I have to say that I prefer XFactor i get a lot more search results and it runs faster www.XFactor.cc try it out   
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  i don't get what people see is wrong with poisoned, great update! xfactor is the same thing essentially, but i like using the real thing, not a knock off. plus the developer of xfactor is a real jerk  
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  I don't know what is happened to you all. Poisoned is still the best: fast, stable downloads, good search results. Use LimeWire as a backup, XFactor is almost the same thing, a legal copy of Poisoned, but I like the original better.

I'm sure, Poisoned v0.6 which WILL come will be a big update. Now we can just wait until 0.6 and take the although good 0.5xx versions.  
(Version 0.516)

KEVLAR  Works great, just always remember to forward your ports to any firewall/airport/router, to get the best results. Downloads work as good if not better then any other giFT deamon app. Hopefully giFTproject will fix some of the problems on there end and add some new features for us in the near future.  
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  what on earth has happened to this program? it used to work like a dream. now it sucks -- poor search results, low download success rates. i've gone back to using acquisition -- which now works like a dream. go figure.  
(Version 0.516)

CHAR101  We waited all this time for an update and this is it. Come on poisoned team, people are going to start switching to XFactor www.XFactor.cc all over the place is the updates don't come faster with more in them

I will stick with XFactor for now.. even though i can't find in on Macupdate  
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  The nodes and banlist updating is fake. Little Snitch doesn't say anything. It just says it's downloading the files. Best of all, it's Open-Source, so you can prove it's a fake.  
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  yeah XFactor is like a copy of it... i ran Poisoned and XFactor simultaneousely and when i downloaded something on XFactor, the download also showed up on Poisoned..  
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  I hardly think this deserves a hot pick, considering what a piece of crap it is. It looks like someone's just been copying acquisition.  
(Version 0.516)

ANONYMOUS  Ok, the troubles of yesterday are forgotten, I hope. This version is nice, The Return Of The King: Poisoned is back!!! And that's wonderful to see.

Please keep up your great work!!  
(Version 0.516)

JULIAN ASHTON  What in the world are people talking about me for? I never post here, this is the first time on MacUpdate, ever! Does this have something to do with the non-official Poisoned 0.52 that I compiled and let a few people have out of my concerns over their stale OpenFT implementation. This is an utter outrage and if it does have to do with that "unofficial" 0.52 then why is this titled "0.515"? and why am I blacklisted here?? This makes no sense at all...  
(Version 0.515)

ANONYMOUS  you may have noticed this, but in past versions, an easy way to get back what was lost was set prefs to where music was going, then restarting the software. it all comes back. just taking lil longer than usual with this. i do wish the developers would make it so you could tile everything so you can see all downloads at once. acqlite and such do. nice though and ya, xfactor is the same thing just different name.  
(Version 0.52)

ANONYMOUS  Oh yes, Poisoned is back!!! GREAT. with new icon. And yes, after trying it just a few moments, I must say, it works great again. Thank you, I waited so many times for this release.  
(Version 0.52)

ANONYMOUS  Hey i downloaded poisoned a while back, and it was working great.. now, all of a sudden it crashes every time i open it up! it's a pity as it is normally a great program!  
(Version 0.515)

THE USUAL SUSPECT   Quiet simply the only download application you will ever need, or will be once BitTorrent support is added. It does everything it does perfectly and is chock full of great features etc.

Not much else to say, it's quite literally perfect *shrugs*  
(Version 0.515)

BIGBADBEN  i tried .515. its as a bug with deamon.it erased every download it had.i had to erase evything in computer(about poisoned) and reinstalle it.but the rest is very good. IT'S FASTER THEN LIMEWIRE...VERY FAST....  
(Version 0.515)

MARTIN  Hi, everyone, i´m writing from Germany. I had tried to download Poisoned 0.515. But i can´t download the File, everytime i click on "Download", nothing happens. I was on many Sites, but it was always the same Problem. I have an G4 PowerBook with Panther (newest Version incl. Update) and i don´t know why this doesn´t work, Is there anyone who can help me? Thanks very much for your help. regards Martin.

PS: sorry for my bad english  
(Version 0.515)

INSIDER  For all who are waiting for an update:

The devs are working on multilingual support.

The next update called "Poisoned 0.6" may be released in the next two months.  
(Version 0.515)

ANONYMOUS  how do you get Poisoned to work if you are on a proxy server?  
(Version 0.515)

ANONYMOUS  About the "Poisoned Custom Icons 1.0":

thanks for this great little thing in the related links.

The poisoned apple icon looks very nice, and I'm using it with pleasure.  
(Version 0.515)

ANONYMOUS  so, just re-download Poisoned, or reset it via Menu Toolbar.  
(Version 0.515)

ANONYMOUS  I get crashes all the time and rarely find anything I am looking for. I really don't see why people love this cr.app so much.  
(Version 0.515)

MICHAEL DIPPERY  Excellent program, seems fairly stable for me, and it returns a lot of files very quickly. Lots of useful features. Nice interface.  
(Version 0.515)

ANONYMOUS  Must I allow certain ports in my firewall settings in order to make each of the services work? If so, can anyone advise which ports? Thanks, N  
(Version 0.515)

GARY BRYAN  Version 0.515 seems to freeze my computer a lot - the mouse still moves, but clicking and typing do nothing. I never had this problem with any of the previous versions.  
(Version 0.515)

JOHN Q. BLACKBEARD  I don't particularly like how each new version forgets a few of my preferences. Other than that, it's all I could expect with a P2P app. I.e., it's OK for small things you can't find elsewhere, but it'd be mighty frustrating without a complementary Usenet feed. It's much, much nicer than the awful iSwipe, which is ugly, actively hostile, and resistant to user configuration. And let's not talk about the Windows P2P clients! Give me Poisoned any day over them!  
(Version 0.515)

KALKI  Though this program has quit on me a couple times, it has become by far my favorite peice of P2P software. I am only an occasional user even of this, but I rarely bother at all with any of the others any more. I am running it on OS X 10.3.2 and a cable connection and have excellent results and downloads.  
(Version 0.515)

ANONYMOUS  Useless! have tried every single new version the last year or so and have never ever been able to dl a single file with this app. It tells me theres a zillion terabyte of files available, but none of them are downloadable. I stick to Acqlite...  
(Version 0.515)

ANDREW HAAS  hmmmmmmm....this doesn't seem like a huge inprovement (if any) over the older versions, and it still disconnects every so often, erasing my search results....it also takes a while (alot longer than past versions) to list search results, and actually getting something to download it very hard to do...it will either show no users or or just sit waiting.....kinda frustrating.  
(Version 0.515)

ANONYMOUS  this is the best P2P app for the mac, keep up the great work. As for poisonedtibook's comment, what would you rather have them do? i agree it should have have a pop-up saying "this will overwrite you prefs file, do you want to do this" but to ask them to build in preference coverstion only to take it out in the next version seams rather stupid.  
(Version 0.515)

POISONEDTIBOOK  STAY AWAY FROM THIS VERSION! I feel totally betrayed by the poisoned team, since this version (without any user confirmation) totally trashed my prefs file AND my huge download queue. My download queue consisted of hundreds of megs of partial downloads, which all went up in smoke when I installed v.515. Because I'm stuck with a dialup connection, I've lost countless days worth of d/l time. (I'm overseas--my ISP still charges by the hour!)

I don't mind the programmers changing the way poisoned deals with it's partial downloads. But to trash all of their user's partial downloads (without asking first) is beyond stupid. I wonder what they were thinking (or smoking) last week?  
(Version 0.515)

MACAHOLIC  For something for just the gunella network LimeWire is the best but does only that network.  
(Version 0.515)

THE GOODGUY™  ah I still get generealy 5,600,454,463 files everytime i open it, but it doesn't seem like it tries to find more hosts.. also im finding the preview button doesn't always work :\ .. Bittorrent support would be extremely sexy!  
(Version 0.515)

JAKE  I think you should have an option not to share because now a days you can get cought for that. I suggest using aqclite its been working really well for me.  
(Version 0.515)

ANONYMOUS  This app is great but it would be PERFECT if it could connect to the acquisition server. That server alone has many people on it, and it would add millions of files.  
(Version 0.515)

ANONYMOUS  what do the checks and exclamation points next to the files mean?  
(Version 0.514)

OZZPOT  This is the best P2P application I have used on OS X. It's use of OpenFT, Gnutella and, most importantly, the FastTrack networks means you have 3-4 million users contributing to a staggering wealth of goodies at any one time. I love it too because it is written natively for OS X and not in Java like some other P2P apps, which means the GUI is true aqua and uses any themes you have installed.

I just have two minor gripes:

There should be a column for connection speed. I like to know before I download from someone if they've got DSL, Cable, T3 or dialup. It means I can select which sources will be the quickest. Other P2P apps do this. I apologise if this feature is already there, but I can't find it if it is.

The other thing is a bug with the drawer when using themes. When using brushed metal appearance, it shows buttons at the top of the drawer, partially hidden by the "filter box". Obviously they should not be there. Also, when the poisoned window is closed with the drawer out, a white box appears on the desktop where the drawer was, and doesn't go away until the poisoned window is brought back, the drawer closed, and the window closed again. Also, when using WindowShade X, when the window is made transparent with the drawer out, the drawer remains opaque.

These are minor gripes, and I know a lot of people don't use themes, so the drawer bugs won't bother them, but I'd love to see these bugs ironed out.  
(Version 0.514)

WHITE FIRE  The icon they had a while ago with the green bubbly stuff in a beaker with a magnifying glass was the best.  
(Version 0.514)

ADAM  It really says good things about the program when people can only seen to whine about the icon eh?  
(Version 0.514)

CHICKEN POT PIE  It may have taken a while... but they've finally done it. Congratulations on the lamest icon of 2004. Great app, now how about some thought into its iconic presentation?  
(Version 0.514)

ANONYMOUS  Pretty good except this icon. It looks like the French ANPE logo or some Italian companies, lol.  
(Version 0.514)

MALI CURRINGTON  this version is very undtable!! each time i type a selectionin the "search box" it begins the search then crashes within 3 seconds! I am using OSX 10.2.8  
(Version 0.514)

GRAMAGE  @ anoymous:

Limewire is slow, and buggy. You said it yourself.

So how exactly is it better than poisoned?

Poisoned kicks ass, undeniably the greatest P2P app ever. Limewire should die and never come back.  
(Version 0.514)

QUIIICK  Thanks for quickly fixing this horrible prefs-bug in v0.512.

Even though I found out myself how to get version 0.512 up and running again by removing the prefs file manually. ;-)  
(Version 0.514)

ANONYMOUS  That's at least the best Poisoned today ;-)

Fortunately, its developers works quickly to fix this horrible bug in v0.512

It works fine again.  
(Version 0.514)

VELOCT  Any idea what's new on this one from the one yesterday?  
(Version 0.512)

LEXY WWW.STUDIORADIOLEXY.NL  The update of today immediately crashes after starting. Yesterday's version worked fine.  
(Version 0.512)

ANONYMOUS  great app, but i don't know why they abandoned the cool test tube icon and have subsequently subjected us to a parade of truly subpar ones.  
(Version 0.512)

ANONYMOUS  Certainly the icon is better than the previous one, so I'm happy!  
(Version 0.512)

ANONYMOUS  What the hell?! Quit changing the damn icon! the newest one seems to be a wannabe of its superior: acqlite. The icon was Great when you had the magnifying glass in the beaker... Why are you changing them? Is it because of complainers? Like me? Well, don't listen to people like me... do what YOU want and stick with the decision... That's just some advice...  
(Version 0.511)

MICHAEL PUSKAS  For all the whiners who are so annoyingly anal about icons:

http://www.xicons.com/

Pick one you like, and change the Poisoned icon. And please stop bitching about something so small.  
(Version 0.511)

ANONYMOUS  If the icon gets changed one more time I'm never using this thing again.

Acqlite is better anyway.  
(Version 0.511)

ANONYMOUS  If you don't like the icon, discuss this topic on the sticky on the forum of the Poisoned Project (gottsilla.net), where you can add your own concepts.  
(Version 0.511)

MARK OLIVER  Good app but this new version kills all my prefs. Not only that but this icon situation seems to be getting worse. If this app was called "Christmas Sync" the icon would be perfect.  
(Version 0.511)

ANONYMOUS  It works. But the toolbar became strange when I choose brushed metal theme.  
(Version 0.511)

ANDREW HAAS  a great program, but....the gift daemon goofs up a lot and goes into this "use all the CPU and don't let them search for anything" mode quite often. I've had this program since v.494 and has blown every other program that even comes close clear out of the water, except for v.5 where it started doing the above mentioned....but i would STILL say it's worth having.  
(Version 0.50)

ANONYMOUS  brilliant, smart, small, fast, love it. thanks!  
(Version 0.50)

DAVID X. FRIEDMAN  wow...

i'd say 'stay away,' to keep a good thing more 2 myself...but there's already enuf out there aware of how tasty this thang is...

i'm an 'old-skool' onlinetype, from compuserve & trs-80 model 2, 16K memory, 2400 BPS acoustic-coupler ("wargames,' anyone?) days...watching my pops do online BBS's back in the late 80's...and i've just recently dumped PC's and gone full-on MAC! (rawk!)...

my powerbook g4 has been repeatedly crashing using MlMac (mldonkey) - not to diss the program/programmer - julian is an amazing kid, and offered the opensource community an amazing thang - but mlmac just crashed -waaaay- too often...

i've had poisoned .50 up for about 2 hrs now, and, as of writing this sentence, it's already recv'd some 'music-related' files i couldn't find via mlmac, and is halfway thru downloading an .avi file i've searched for repeatedly (no results) via mlmac...plus, i'm hitting about 60 kbps, vs. about 20 (tops) via MlMac. rawk & roll.  
(Version 0.50)

ALEX BRENNAN  This is by far the best P2P file sharing program I have ever used on a Mac. The ability to seach through three (3) networks at the same time is amazing. I would highly recommend this program to anyone who is looking to find that Macintosh Kazza equal (or in this case superior).  
(Version 0.50)

150 FILE GUY  Who said I was doing anything illegal? Besides, your comment has nothing to do with the fact that the program crashes when trying to cancel a buch of downloads at once.  
(Version 0.50)

BRIAN  OK, for all of you morons out there who:

1: Complain about the icon: Geezus Christ, change the icon then if you don't like it. It's reallllllly not that hard to do. In fact, copy the icon from the old version and paste it into the new, and stop posting here about useless crap. (BTW, the icon of the previous versions was from an icon set published widely on the web, and could not be used for commercial/business purposes, which is probly why he changed it to the new one)

2: To the guy who complained because he tried downloading 150 files at once, I hope you get arrested.

3: To those who complain about not finding enough files, maybe if you actually SHARED some files, others would do the same, and voila, more files to download.

This is by far the best file sharing proggie for the mac, and I hope the developer continues to improve on it.   
(Version 0.50)

STEVE  Downloaded and installed the application without any hiccups - which is the norm for Poisoned.

I then downloaded 16 different songs from various artists, genres and the like. 14 of those have turned out corrupted. They seem to download OK and then at the 90-95% mark they hurry up or stop and I get corrupted music files. Not sure what is going on but desperately waiting for another update as I didn't have this problem with any of the v0.4x

Machine Specs:

iMac 17" 1GHz G4 with Mac OSX 10.2.8.  
(Version 0.50)

BEZIERBOY  The good: Finds plenty of results and downloads them fine for me. Switched from v0.48 for good.

The bad: frequently crashes or locks up with spinning beachball when cancelling downloads, and can get slow when running. Will also suck up a LOT of CPU cycles and bandwidth if you let it, but all P2P programs do this.

Overall, I'd say it's one of the best P2P download programs for the Mac, and certainly the best multi-protocol one.  
(Version 0.50)

LEIGH  After using Poisoned and quiting the application, my modem and hard drives continue to be busy for quite some time. What's going on?  
(Version 0.50)

URLAMERZ  lookie here peeps... you can bloody well make an icon yourself or use one that you like. you know the old copy and paste routine? maybe? you know, do a 'getinfo' on the Poisoned app, click on the app's icon in the getinfo window, copy an icon you like, paste it onto the Poisoned app icon in the getinfo window and STFU.

gawd you all are so lame, whining about an icon fer crissakes.  
(Version 0.50)

ANONYMOUS  the new icon is a retrograde eye sore. i mean, what is this? glider pro? ack.  
(Version 0.50)

KRISTIE  The previous icon was way better than this one, this one looks like utilities and is way too much complicated.  
(Version 0.50)

SACRé FRANçAIS  Poisoned Works Better Now !!! Yeah yeah yeah tougoudoudou wap wap yeah ! Poisoned works ! He has some bugs, but it's better than previous version !   
(Version 0.50)

ANONYMOUS  I thought the previous icon -- the beaker full of poison -- was way cooler than this fat little syringe.  
(Version 0.50)

FLARCH  Haven't used this in a while so i'm about to give this new version a try. But i just wanted to say:

HURRAY! THE UGLY ICON IS GONE!

Of course, i've been using this icon for some time. :)  
(Version 0.50)

ANONYMOUS  Try downloading about 150 files at once. Then try cancelling them all. Quite often, some will not cancel. When you quit the application and then restart, there are files still in the queue.

Also, heavy selection of searched fiels will lead to setting the search results back to zero or bombing of the application.

Come on guys! Instead of changing the icon every verison, why not fix bugs that have existed since the first version!?  
(Version 0.50)

BEZIERBOY  Rough translation of the Spanish troubleshooting comment:

"This application does not download absolutely anything. It can be connected very well, supposedly with million users, but it cannot download anything."

I realize OS X has Sherlock, but the vast majority of the posts on this website are in English.

I'll see if this version works for me. 0.48 worked and I avoided the distaster that was 0.49 (the developer pulled it hours after release.)  
(Version 0.50)

MUNDO  Esta aplicación no baja absolutamente nada. Puede conectarse muy bien, supuestamente con millones de usuarios, pero no puede bajar nada.   
(Version 0.50)

ANONYMOUS  Guys, please fix that Gnutella + OpenFT stuff...

OpenFT doesnt even connect and from Gnutella i only get about 5'000 users!!!  
(Version 0.50)

ANONYMOUS  At the first start of 0.5 it did not connect to Gnutella and OpenFT but made a lot of disk activity, while it remains responsive.

After the first start it also connects to Gnutella, but not to OpenFT.  
(Version 0.50)

RUDE.BOY  i still can't connect to gnutella. is there something i'm missing. all other search "plugins" find stuff and download. i think the user interface and basic interactions of poisoned are great, i just wish it was more stable. i'll keep trying tho...  
(Version 0.50)

REN+STIMPY  I am a poor student, and my disk is too small, so I can only share 2 files at most. This software sucks, because whenever I download the 3 CD set, I get kicked out after a while. Go figure this crap !  
(Version 0.498)

SVERRE JAKOBSEN  When I try to download files they won´t start downloading they are all set to wait!

Q: Have i dome something wrong?

Q:What can i do to make it work?  
(Version 0.498)

ANONYMOUS  Thanks for the application, since it's free; however, it's nowhere near the limewire. I'm not sure if limewire contains spywares, but it works unlike poisoned for which it never successfully complete a job. I spent 20 hours recieved 70% of the download then everything stopped and that user never appear again. When I open the activity monitor there is a "other user" playing with my system. My system doesn't connect to any network at all and I'm the only user. What do you think ? Beware !  
(Version 0.498)

ALEX  I was stunned to see SO MANY results for my searches and equally stunned when I was not able to download any of them. Acquisition may not pull down as many results but I am able to get the files I'm looking for. Poisoned is the prettier of the two though (I like the metal look option) but looks don't matter in this game.  
(Version 0.498)

OBIWAN  Hey genghiscohen,

I agree with someguy. My Mac is also configured correctly but I have the same problem where Poisoned can find TONS but only connects to a handful at best. Also the main window blinks on and off wiping out the search strings every now and then for some reason.

I know it's not my ports or anything because Aquisition, AcqLite, MLMac, iSwipe and all the other File Sharing Apps work perfectly.

Go figure...

That said when Poisoned does work it works very well. Now if they could just iron out the bugs......  
(Version 0.499)

ANONYMOUS  You don't have to pay for Acquisition to use it... only if you're annoyed by the poppup that asks you to, will you then have to pay for it to get ride of that... otherwise it works fully functional.

In my experiences, Aquisition gets better results with certain files and Poisoned gets better results with other files.. uhm in thise case... the wise thing to do would to have both (or as many file sharing programs you can get your hands on) :P

no sense in deleting other programs, unless your like very low on disk space?  
(Version 0.499)

GENGHISCOHEN  Some guy, you probably have the necessary ports blocked or something like that. I get TONS of downloads with Poisoned, and usually at very fast speeds, too. It is WAY superior to Acquisition.  
(Version 0.499)

SOME GUY  15 bux for a program that works better than acqlite & poisoned - Acquisition. Downloads get over 200 KB/sec at times, find pretty much everything I ever look for, and c'mon people, I'm sure you'll DL more than a CDs worth of music so why does everyone gotta be so cheap? Poisoned finds a bunch of files, but almost NEVER connects to any of the hosts. Pretty useless if you ask me. And yes my Mac is configured correctly.  
(Version 0.499)

ANONYMOUS  Nobody uses Acquisition any more because it's paid. Use the free acqlite.  
(Version 0.499)

ANONYMOUS  Acquisition is still the best. Even if it cost money.  
(Version 0.499)

POISSON  Anonymous, you suck! Be nice, OK?  
(Version 0.499)

GENGHISCOHEN  Yup, never launches the daemon for me, either.  
(Version 0.499)

WTMCGEE  ditto. hangs on launch.  
(Version 0.499)

ANONYMOUS  new 499 version hangs on launch for me.  
(Version 0.499)

ANONYMOUS  How about you make sure it starts the daemon before you release it. Sounds nice and all, but make it work before you put it out to the general public, you're becoming limewire. It either freezes or doesn't start the daemon, what good does that do me? hope you fix it!  
(Version 0.499)

HENTREZ LEVAGIN  Poisoned is slipping fast. Used to be a pretty good P2P app. I would suggest the new Limewire (I know, I know... Limewire sucks... but not anymore). I have had amazing success with it lately and now use only it and ACQlite.

(excuse my English, I'm Canadian)  
(Version 0.499)

FRANKY LES BALLONS  Don't Works... Poisoned is more unstable and more and more unusually, update after update... (i'm French, excuse my english).  
(Version 0.499)

ANONYMOUS  This new version is unusable.

Freezes on startup, can't connect to the network.  
(Version 0.499)

DR. MCB.  Agree with frustrated downloaders. Have found many songs I wanted, but have only successfully downloaded three of them.  
(Version 0.498)

POISONED NEEDS WORK  This program is the biggest tease. Incredible search results, Terrible download success. 1 out of 100 files will download. With every update, I hope this will change, but I've been disappointed everytime.  
(Version 0.498)

NH  my favorite app! need i say more.  
(Version 0.498)

ANONYMOUS  This latest version has the tendency to behave strangely. Blinks on and off and removes the entire search results, meaning you have to input the search query again.

If it could actually download even 25% of what it offers this app would kick ass all the way.  
(Version 0.498)

ANONYMOUS  Sometimes when i try to cancel a download, it crashes and quits.

Other than that, a great app.  
(Version 0.498)

PEDRO PERES  This version is much more stable for old macs running OS X 10.2 , it doesn't crash any more.

the others versions crashed for no particular reason.

This version conects to gnutella network much more faster.

This version is better but i still can't download

nothing with poisosned.  
(Version 0.498)

ANONYMOUS  Behaves very strangely and crashes if you run out of disk space. Otherwise pretty good.  
(Version 0.498)

ANONYMOUS  This app found better results in previous versions. The new version of mlmac allows for much faster downloads. The previous versions would find files and have good speed, the last three updates have not been able to download a single file.  
(Version 0.498)

PEDRO PERES  This program has lots of problems:

1- Can't connect to Gnutella networks ( that's the network with more mac software)

2- the Filters, don't work , when you select in the filter that you just want software form the search that you are about to do , it appears almost just music.

3-when you download a song from multiple users the song , almost always is corrupted after the donwload finishes.  
(Version 0.497)

MEDICINEUK  http://www.spymac.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=56261&papass=&sort=1&thecat=500

i did one a long time ago e-mail me if you want it.  
(Version 0.497)

ANONYMOUS  Amazing App.

Get's me what I need.

The forums are helpful.

The icon is a bit cheesy...

I love it.

Acq...no thanks, mate!

Peace!  
(Version 0.497)

VIRGINIA PLAIN  No no no---keep using 4.9.5 and do NOT download 4.9.7---the FastTrack port number keeps reverting back to "0" and the application never connects to FastTrack.

Unfortunately, 4.9.7 replaced older prefs files so you have to trash everything but the application (4.9.5) and start from scratch.

Great program, but this upgrade doesn't work.  
(Version 0.497)

THE OMNIPOTENT MUMMY  I've successfully downloaded 2 files with this program. I've successfully downloaded thousands of files with Acquisition. Poisoned finds lots of files, but doesn't connect to any of the hosts, even with all the correct configurations set. It seems to work for some, but has never worked for me. Acquisition, on the other hand, has never let me down. Until Poisoned actually starts downloading like its meant to do, I'll stick with Acquisition.  
(Version 0.497)

FLARCH  Schweeeet!

Beats the the rest of it's kind handily.

(BUT that is one butt-ugly icon!)  
(Version 0.495)

MONKEY  if thats the sir kirby that hangs arround the poisoned forum i'm surprised, cos there he is really helpful and positive. i've never used a p2p before apart from neo and that was in it's dying days. all i know is that ashton is always in the forums helping out with mine and others noob ignorance, listening to feedback and responding with new versions every three weeks. so if that is sir kirbys definition of an arrogant bastard, well ashton you go on being being one. The world needs more bastards like you.   
(Version 0.495)